Astronomers have discovered a new rapidly spinning star that races through the universe at millions of miles per hour and spins 14 times a second. The pulsar, the rapidly spinning core of a dead star, ...

All the planets orbit in roughly the same plane because they formed from a single rotating disk of gas and dust — the solar nebula — that flattened as it spun around the young Sun. The shared origin ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has produced the first-ever X-ray polarization data of the Vela pulsar wind nebula, which lies about 1,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

Astronomers have encountered a long-period radio transient (LPT), which is defying all their astrophysical assertions. The "cosmic unicorn" named CHIME J1634+44, whose anomalies have stunned experts.

The pulsar nebula has been named "Potoroo", after a small Australian marsupial. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have ...